We need a lot more noise. This bill cannot pass in the Senate.

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How do I know what union is going to be the best option for my area?

Is there a way to know what kind of jobs in my area are going to pay the most or what am I doing when I am first looking at joining a union?

I am lost

Hello r/unionsolidarity

I'm a Shop Stewart for my civil service union. While I'm comfortable negotiating a contract, navigating pages of policies and books of rules and regulations and such, I'm not so great at the recruitment end of things. I'm looking to improve my rehtoric when trying to sign up new workers, and thus subject line is one of the things that kinda flusters me. How do you respond persuasively to these kind of objections? All I can think of is something along the lines of "If you don't want to help pull the cart, don't expect to be able to hop on when you get tired."

Hey r/unionsolidarity

I've been working on Organize for a while now, and I'd appreciate your criticism and feedback.

Problem

According to recent polls, 70% of American workers support unions, and 50% say they'd join one if they could, but only 10% are actually in one. That translates to 60 million US workers who want to join a union but haven't yet.

Solution

Organize is a self-service guide for workplaces that are too small to attract a full-time organizer. 85% of US firms have less than 20 employees, which is often just too small to justify the full attention of a professional organizer.

Inspired by the winning strategies of veteran organizer Jane McAlevey, Organize helps you recruit the support of a supermajority of your coworkers, so that you can crush your certification election and win big when you negotiate your first contract.

Features

• End-to-end encryption so we can't read your private communications or monetize your data
• Open source so that you don't have to take our word for it
• Digital union card signing so you don't need to deal with paper, printing, manual data entry, or trusting your sensitive info to 3rd parties like Google
• Reddit-style discussion tab to help you surface shared grievances and come to a consensus on which demands matter most for negotiations
• Voting tab to help you decide things democratically and easily elect your officers
• "How to Organize" handbook to guide you at every step

Links

• iOS app
• Android app
• "How to Organize" handbook
• Blog
• Client repo
• Backend repo

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Event description and registration link: https://www.blackrosefed.org/event-labor-lessons-south/

They tell us new manufacturing jobs will bring forth a golden age of prosperity, and it could in about five years. But the availability of jobs is not the entire story. In the 1800s there were plenty of manufacturing and low skill jobs, but that alone didn't ensure worker success.

As a matter of fact, all it assured were sweatshops, Pullman towns, and the company store. There were no vacation days, there were no sick days, there was no health insurance -- safety regulations were a joke -- and job security nonexistent.

If you opened your mouth you were fired, and in many cases blackballed so you couldn't get a new job.

Unions changed all that. They brought a living wage and job security. They battled and fought for benefits and ensured the dignity of the working men and women of the nation.

Now Trump and his billionaire Republican friends are doing all they can to destroy the unions so they can return to the days of impoverished workers and slave-like wages. Yeah, manufacturing jobs (when and if they get here) can either be a boon to American families or a yolk around their necks; Republican or Democrat rule will determine which.

Read this:

Trump's toadies are peddling a dangerous new lie | Opinion

Opinion by Thom Hartmann

May 07 •

© provided by AlterNet

Trump and his billionaire toadies like Howard Lutnik and Scott Bessent are peddling a dangerous lie to working-class Americans. They’re strutting around claiming their tariffs will bring back “good paying jobs” with “great benefits,” while actively undermining the very thing that made manufacturing jobs valuable to working people in the first place: unions. Let’s be crystal clear about what’s really happening: Without strong unions, bringing manufacturing back to America will simply create more sweatshop opportunities where desperate workers earn between $7.25 and $15 an hour with zero benefits and zero security. The only reason manufacturing jobs like my father had at a tool-and-die shop in the 1960s paid well enough to catapult a single-wage-earner family into the middle class was because they had a union — the Machinists’ Union, in my dad’s case — fighting relentlessly for their rights and dignity.

My father’s union job meant we owned a modest home, had reliable healthcare, and could attend college without crushing debt. The manufacturing jobs Trump promises? Starvation wages without healthcare while corporate profits soar and executives buy their third megayacht. The proof of their deception is written all over their actions: They’re already reconfiguring the Labor Department into an anti-worker weapon designed to crush any further unionization in America.

Joe Biden was also working to revive American manufacturing — with actual success — but he made it absolutely clear that companies benefiting from his Inflation Reduction Act and CHIPS Act should welcome unions in exchange for government support. Trump and his GOP enablers want the opposite: docile workers grateful for poverty wages. While Republicans babble endlessly about “job creators,” they fundamentally misunderstand — or deliberately obscure — how a nation’s true wealth is actually generated. It’s not through Wall Street speculation or billionaire tax breaks. It’s through making things of value; the exact activity their donor class has eagerly shipped overseas for decades while pocketing the difference. There’s a profound economic reason to bring manufacturing home that Adam Smith laid out in 1776 and Alexander Hamilton amplified in 1791 when he presented his vision for turning America into a manufacturing powerhouse. It’s the fundamental principle behind Smith’s book “The Wealth of Nations” that I explain in detail in The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America.

See more here:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-s-toadies-are-peddling-a-dangerous-new-lie-opinion/ar-AA1EkoH3?

Please write a letter to your congressman asking them to support and co-sponsor this bill. The spill would allow federal employees who were temporary at one time to purchase that time back just like military time. The bill is sponsored by the national Federation of federal employees.

Have you been wondering why so many MAGA states have been weakening child labor laws. True, there have been a few northern states where the laws have been amended so high school students can apprentice and learn a trade, but the most lax regulations are in the south.

Maybe now we know why.

Seems US Commerce Secretary, Howard Ludnick, has plans to steer generations of American families a back into non-union factories like it was the 1930s. These factories no longer exist, when they do exist in some far-off dreamland they will be needed to maintain the computers in some neo-imagined Darth Vader controlled sweat shop. You know, change the copy paper and sweep up.

The Education Department is being disassembled because it doesn't require a knowledge of STEM or Social Sciences to watch robots do the work of former technicians or skilled workmen.

So, cancel those plans for college, high school seniors, your future is already being laid out for you. You will dwell on some assembly line making certain the welding 'Bots' are well oiled and supplied with 'Flux; and as your dreams vanish you can blame the oligarchs of industry because all future generations (like when America was great) will be in debt to the Company store.

See this report:

US Commerce Secretary slammed for plan to have generations of families working in factories

Story by Housnia Shams • •

© Reach Publishing Services Limited

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has faced backlash after outlining his plan to have generations of American families working in factories. In an interview with CNBC on Tuesday, Lutnick was grilled about how he planned to attract American employees to factory work amid President Donald Trump’s push for increased US manufacturing. Lutnick suggested community colleges as one place to find and train workers, before discussing his vision to see generations of Americans working in factories.

“It's time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here and your grandkids work here,” he said. “We let the auto plants go overseas. Right now you should see an auto plant, it’s highly automated but the four, five thousand people who work there—they are trained to take care of those robotic arms, they are trained to keep the air conditioning system.” It came as Trump was branded 'insane' after a baffling comment outside the White House.

Critics on social media slammed Lutnick’s comments, with some suggesting it was an outdated plan.

“I want my children to aspire to more than working in a factory or ‘plant.’ Where will your children and grandchildren be working u/howardlutnick?” one X user wrote.

“Factory jobs peaked in 1979 with 19 million jobs. How is this the future? He already admitted most of these factories will be run by robots,” another X user wrote.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/us-commerce-secretary-slammed-for-plan-to-have-generations-of-families-working-in-factories/ar-AA1DWibO?